0.1.1 • Published 5 years ago
maren-core v0.1.1
Maren Core
Maren is a theme based markdown renderer. It renders markdown to html by using a theme.
Theme can be developed by any tools. It is completely separated from Maren to allow easy and rich customization.
Install
npm install maren-coreAPI
const {
render,
loadTheme,
basicTheme
} = require('maren-core');render
/**
* Render markdownString to html by using a theme.
*
* @param {string} markdownString - Markdown to render to html
* @param {object} theme - Theme used to render Markdown
* @param {object} theme.options
* @param {array} theme.options.styles - Paths to css files
* @param {array} theme.options.scripts - Paths to js files
* @param {function} theme.beforeRender - Modify "data" to render
* @param {function} theme.template - Template used to render html
*
* @return {string} Usually html, depends on template
*/
function render(markdownString, theme) { /* */ }loadTheme
/**
* Load theme from themeLocation.
* Required file: themeLocation/template.js
* Optional file: themeLocation/options.json
*
* @param {string} themeLocation - Absolute path to theme folder
*
* @return {object} Theme object { name, location, template, options }
* @return {undefined} If theme not found
*/
function loadTheme(themeLocation) { /* */ }basicTheme
console.log(basicTheme);
/*
{ name: 'basic',
location: '.../maren-core/themes/basic',
template: [Function],
options: {} }
*/Theme
const theme = {
// required
// should be compiled render function, but can be other
template: data => data,
// optional
// can modify data in any way, don't forget to return new data
beforeRender: data => {
console.log(data);
return data;
},
// optional
// should contain minified and hashed styles and scripts
options: {
styles: ["styles-a8945f9ff83852c0da4d9b56dc0b50fd.css"],
scripts: ["scripts-a73c5dd921d5f33f040f5f51890f04af.js"]
},
// if theme is not manually created, but loaded using loadTheme,
// it will also have "name" and "location" like basicTheme
};Use
Dummy theme
const { render } = require('maren-core');
/* your markdown string */
const markdown = '# Article';
/* your theme */
const theme = {
/* required */
template: (data) => {
/* template can render data using
template library of choice
(pug, ejs, handlebars, mustache, or other)
or simply return data as is */
return data;
},
/* not required */
options: undefined,
beforeRender: undefined
};
/* output depends on the theme */
const output = render(markdown, theme);
console.log(output);
/*
{ meta: { title: 'Article', toc: undefined },
html: '<h1 id="article">Article</h1>\n',
options: undefined }
*/Basic theme
const { render, basicTheme } = require('maren-core');
/* your markdown string */
const markdown = '# Article';
/* output depends on the theme */
const output = render(markdown, basicTheme);
console.log(output);
/*
<html>...</html>
*/Tests
npm test